(19)
(11) EP 2 040 388 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
11.04.2012 Bulletin 2012/15

(43) Date of publication A2:
25.03.2009 Bulletin 2009/13

(21) Application number: 08022255.7

(22) Date of filing: 24.04.1998
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
H04W 52/04(2009.01)
H04W 36/08(2009.01)
H04B 7/02(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

(30) Priority: 24.04.1997 JP 12378297

(62) Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
07014599.0 / 1843483
98917680.5 / 0978958

(71) Applicant: NTT MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK INC.
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8436 (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Tamura, Motoshi
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Miki, Mutsumaru
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Okamoto, Akiko
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Kusunose, Kenya
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Uchikoshi, Akihiro
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Igarashi, Daisuke
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Yamagata, Katsuhiko
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Sato, Takaaki
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Hagiwara, Junichiro
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Watanabe, Yasuyuki
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Hamajima, Takuya
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Hata, Masafumi
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Ishikawa, Nobutaka
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Yasuda, Yoshiyuki
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Yunoki, Kazufumi
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)
  • Uchiyama, Nobuhide
    Tokyo 100-6150 (JP)

(74) Representative: Spilgies, Jan-Hendrik 
Hoffmann Eitle Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Arabellastrasse 4
81925 München
81925 München (DE)

   


(54) Method and system for mobile communications


(57) The present invention relates to a method for determining a radio zone and an uplink transmission power, comprising transmitting, by each of base stations, broadcast information via a corresponding perch channel, the broadcast information indicating a specified channel transmission power level and an uplink interference level; and receiving, by a mobile station, the broadcast information from near base stations around the mobile station; detecting, by the mobile station, respective reception levels of the perch channels for the near base stations; calculating, by the mobile station, respective path losses between the mobile station and respective near base stations on the basis of the respective reception levels and the respective specified channel transmission power levels indicated by the broadcast information; calculating, by the mobile station, respective necessary uplink transmission power levels between the mobile station and respective near base stations on the basis of the calculated respective path losses, the respective uplink interference levels indicated by the mobile station, the broadcast information, and required signal-to-interference ratios involved in reception by the near base stations; selecting, by the mobile station, a radio zone in which the necessary uplink transmission power level is minimum among the respective necessary uplink transmission power levels, the base station of the selected radio zone being ready for communication with the mobile station or being able to commence communication with the mobile station after handover; and controlling, by the mobile station, an uplink transmission power in the selected radio zone based on the necessary uplink transmission power level of the selected radio zone.





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